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UNITED
NATIONS
General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/51/237
10 July 1997
Fifty-first session
Agenda item 138
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[on the report of the Fifth Committee (A/51/920)]
51/237.
Financing of the United Nations Mission of
Observers in Tajikistan
The General Assembly,
Having considered the report of the Secretary-General on the financing
of the United Nations Mission of Observers in Tajikistan,1 the related report
of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions2 and the
report of the Office of Internal Oversight Services,3
Recalling Security Council resolution 968 (1994) of 16 December 1994, by
which the Council established the United Nations Mission of Observers in
Tajikistan, and the subsequent resolutions by which the Council extended the
mandate of the Mission of Observers, the latest of which was resolution
1099 (1997) of 14 March 1997,
Recalling also its resolutions 49/240 of 31 March 1995 and 50/238
of 7 June 1996 on the financing of the Mission of Observers,
Reaffirming that the costs of the Mission of Observers are expenses of
the Organization to be borne by Member States in accordance with Article 17,
paragraph 2, of the Charter of the United Nations,
Recalling its previous decisions regarding the fact that, in order to
meet the expenditures caused by the Mission of Observers, a different
procedure is required from the one applied to meet expenditures of the regular
budget of the United Nations,
1
A/51/784 and Add.1 and 2.
2
A/51/850.
3
A/51/432, annex.
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